After 24 million customer records exposed Zappos turns off phones…

Zappos.com an online clothing and shoe retailer owned by Amazon.com warned it’s users of a Massive Data Breach exposing details for 24 million of it’s customers.

Stolen details include names, email addresses, billing/shipping addresses, phone numbers, and the last four digits of customers’ credit card numbers.

Zappos,  temporarily turned off its phone lines, due to worries it will not be able to cope with the volume of anticipated calls.  Customers are being directed to contact the firm via email.

And good luck if you have heard about the security incident, and try to read Zappos’ statement about the security incident online. The corporate blog it is posted on is currently blocked to non-US customers.

Sophos, managed to find the full text of a statement from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh via a Google cache of the webpage.

Source: Naked Security